SDD+2015

=media type="custom" key="28363359"= = = = = =The 2015 International Conference on the Science of Dialogic Design: Symposia for Scientists and Practitioners=
 * Conference Dates:** May 4-8, 2015


 * Post Conference School:** May 9 May, 2015


 * Place:** Limassol, Cyprus
 * Venue:** [|Cyprus University of Technology][|[1]], Amphitheater 2, and Workshop Rooms 1 & 2 at the Tasos Papadopoulos Building (Corner of Themidos/Ifigeneias - one street west of Anexartisias Av, or two streets east of the City Hall). See Map[|[2]]
 * Format:** The format is not the standard for a typical conference. Every day will have the same structure but a different focus. ; Many sessions will use the [|Structured Dialogic Design Process] (SDDP) Methodology; some presentations; very short presentations for specific tasks; contributions to be sent before the actual symposion.
 * Five Minutes of Fame || Five individuals every day give 5-min TEDx-like presentations about themselves and their key work. ||
 * Keynote Lecture || Senior members of Global Agoras introduce the Theme and the challenges of the day. ||
 * Symposion || Symposion on the Theme of the day; A few speakers and a lot of discussion. ||
 * Co-Laboratory || Members of the Global Agoras will have a closed-door Co-Laboratory on the Theme of the day; Other conference participants may have the same Co-Laboratory in a parallel session. ||
 * Evening Lecture || Lecture given over dinner; anecdotal and informal in nature. Memories and Reflections from an event related to focal subject of the day (By a senior member of Global Agoras) ||
 * Registration and Participation Fees:**

In order to register, simply pay your fees wiring them to the account below


 * Local and International participants €200 (€175 if prepaid before 31 Dec 2014 )
 * Students €125 (€100 if prepaid before 31 Dec 2014 ); Or €25/day
 * SDDP School €45/daily session (€35 if prepaid)
 * Payment:**

Name of Account Holder: Cyprus Neuroscience & Technology Institute

Address of Account Holder: 5 Promitheos, 1065 Nicosia, CYPRUS

Account Details

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SWIFT CODE: BCYPCY2N010

Name of Bank: Bank of Cyprus, Branch 128

56 Corner Makariou and 1 Demofontos, Nicosia

Tel.  22127500

Fax 22750590


 * Organizers:** The conference is co-organized by:
 * [|Future Worlds Center]
 * [|N.E.T.S. Mediterranean Graduate School of Applied Social Cognition]
 * [| Cyprus Interaction Lab]
 * [|Institute for 21st Century Agoras]
 * Organizing Committee:**
 * [|Yiannis Laouris]
 * [|Aleco Christakis]
 * [|Jeff Diedrich]

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 * ==Contents==
 * [|1] [|Aims:]
 * [|2] [|Accommodation]
 * [|3] [|Suggested Nearby Restaurants for Lunch]
 * [|4] [|Financial Support and Student scholarships]
 * [|5] [|Justification of the Need]
 * [|6] [|A Glimpse into the Design Aims of the Program]
 * [|7] [|Preliminary Program]
 * [|7.1] [|Day 1 Monday May 4]
 * [|7.2] [|Day 2 Tuesday May 5]
 * [|7.3] [|Day 3 Wednesday May 6]
 * [|7.4] [|Day 4 Thursday May 7]
 * [|7.5] [|Day 5 Friday May 8]
 * [|7.6] [|Day 6 Saturday May 9]
 * [|7.7] [|Day 7 Sunday May 10]
 * [|8] [|A Historical Perspective: From the Club of Rome to the Digital Era]
 * [|9] [|Examples of analogous efforts]
 * [|9.1] [|Confirmed International Pioneers (alphabetically)]
 * [|9.2] [|Confirmed Local Pioneers (alphabetically)]
 * [|10] [|Citations]
 * [|10.1] [|Useful Links] ||

Aims:

 * 1) Create an opportunity for scientists and practitioners of the [|Science of Dialogic Design] (SDD) from across the world to get together for a whole week and engage in structured democratic dialogues that would help us all not only advance the science and plan its future, but also to get to know each other and become friends.
 * 2) Offer a unique opportunity for younger colleagues and people interested to learn more about the [|Structured Dialogic Design Process] (SDDP) to engage in the science and/or the practice, to meet and interact with world pioneers, as well as to attend specially designed [|SDD Facilitators Training Schools] that lead to [|Certification].
 * 3) Combine international efforts to achieve global consensus towards conscious evolution of the required social transformations.

Accommodation
Participants should take care of their own accommodation. The conference will take place in conference rooms that belong to the [|Cyprus University of Technology] located at the center of the Limassol Old City. Limassol is a culturally rich city that offers visitors and tourists quality and plentifulness of options. Prices in the beginning of May are lower than during the tourist season. There are many Hotels inside the city and also along the shore for up to 10-15 Km East of the city. There are easy-to-get buses connecting the tourist zones with the centre. You may opt for a Hotel close to the City Centre (using the filter in Booking.com) or an apartment even outside the city (much cheaper) to combine business with some vacations. The organisers will try to assign whenever possible Local Assistants to international visitors to help them with their transportation and moving around.

Participants are //strongly// advised to make their arrangements before the end of the year to benefit from best prices.

Suggested Nearby Restaurants for Lunch

 * 1) Famagusta Kebab House[|[3]], Saripolou 64, Limassol 3041, Cyprus [[image:http://isarc10internetforum.wikispaces.com/site/embedthumbnail/placeholder?w=200&h=50 width="200" height="50"]] +357 25367138
 * 2) Kipros Souvlakia No.1[|[4]] Tziamoudas "Alekos" Gladstonos 21A-B, Tziamouda, Lemesos, Cyprus [[image:http://isarc10internetforum.wikispaces.com/site/embedthumbnail/placeholder?w=200&h=50 width="200" height="50"]] +357 25363590
 * 3) Marios Snacks [|[5]]10, Ayias Zonis, 3027, Limassol, Cyprus [[image:http://isarc10internetforum.wikispaces.com/site/embedthumbnail/placeholder?w=200&h=50 width="200" height="50"]] +357 25360116

Financial Support and Student scholarships
All participants will pay fees. The fees will be used towards supporting visiting scientists and practitioners who come from far away and may need some financial support.

Justification of the Need
The need for far-reaching social transformations in our world is now widely acknowledged. All stakeholders recognize the fact that social change requires participatory, democratic processes. The [|Structured Dialogic Design Process] is positioned as a powerful tool in this context. The purpose of this timely international gathering in Cyprus is not to revisit the history of the past 40 plus years but to create the history of the future. The community of scientists and practitioners of the [|science of dialogic design] has now expanded to include people from all parts of the world and a variety of languages and cultures. This dedicated community of scientists will gather for a whole week to deliberate formally and informally on how to evolve the process and retain its scientific credibility together with its cultural sensitivity. We recognize the fact that our third millennium world needs new methodologies and new tools capable of harnessing the collective wisdom of people from all walks of life in order to protect its sustainability and foster up harmony into its evolution. The event will include sessions dedicated to identifying needs, recognizing challenges and exploring options for new features and new solutions. Each day will include a Keynote Lecture, a Symposion, a Co-Laboratory and a an Evening Lecture all focusing on the same challenge. Some sessions may be parallel offering opportunities for senior members of the Global Agoras to deliberate on their own and to other participants to present and attend a classic-type conference. No claim is being made abour the superiority of the [|Structured Dialogic Design Process], even though there is substantial empirical evidence, from more than 1,000 applications in the arena, to this effect when dealing with the management of complexity. SDDP belongs to the Third Phase of Science, and as a consequence it is meant to be complementary to other methodologies originating from First and Second Phases of Science.

A Glimpse into the Design Aims of the Program
__1. Get to know each other and what everyone is doing__ At the launch of ever day's program, five people will be invited to present //themselves and their key work//. We called it **Five Minutes of Fame** because we expect participants to make VERY short, TEDx-style, presentations. The presentations will be videotaped using quality systems. To prepare for the preparation people should be offering answers to questions like who s/he is, what s/he is doing, what are hers/his major interests, vision for the future, the ONE most important message to leave with the group for the theme of the day, etc. To be allowed to present, one should submit a video 3 months ahead of time. This is to ensure that people have truly prepared for such a short, but very rich presentation and not come unprepared. __2. Define future features of collective wisdom harnessing tools__ We plan to use the [|Structured Dialogic Design Process] Methodology and Cognicope analogous software to define requirements and future features of collective wisdom harnessing tools as reflected by practitioners and students of the science. An analogous virtual SDDP was organised more than 4 years ago and has driven developments since then. The vision is for a new process to kindle developments for the next 3-4 years using the authentic needs, ideas, and wishes of the community of scientists and practitioners. __3. Scaling-up the dialogue to engage thousands or millions__ The next frontier. An SDDP on the challenges of scaling up and engaging thousands or millions in social change processes adhering to the laws of the science of dialogic design (on present state of realization of the idea of **Demoscopio** or Social Planetarium which would give citizens the opportunity to participate in deliberation and implementation of public policies in Crete see []). __4. Coordinating and aligning our efforts__ Challenge: How do we coordinate our efforts in organising dozens, if not hundreds, of [|SDDPs] around the globe, letting people world-wide know about the potentials of the [|Dialogic Design Science]. __Positioning [|Dialogic Design Science] within the framework of other systems science methodologies and approaches__

Important questions such as the following: -- Supposing that significant support for [|Dialogic Design Science] emerged as a consequence of the exercise, how is it assumed that the cases for marginalizing other approaches (considered to be of lesser relevance) would be undertaken -- How best to deal with advocacy of competing approaches and their constituencies -- if it is possible that "different strokes are required for different folks", how is this consideration to be recognized and integrated, especially if those marginalized by SDD strenuously object in some way -- What questions remain unasked in framing the [|SDD] initiative -- as they are in the framing of initiatives by others -- and how do such questions constrain the wider appreciation of the outcome (some arguments in favor of hypothesis that it is the ontological questions concerning the structure and transformation of social systems which remain most often unasked are available to all interested at [] ). The deliberations at the gathering will address all four domains of the DOSM, i.e., the Foundation, Theory, Methodology, and Applications, in order to ensure the evolution of the science in accordance to the tenants of this model, as described in the [|referential transparency paper] posted at the link: http://dialogicdesignscience.wikispaces.com/Laws+(7)
 * Is [|Dialogic Design Science] the appropriate response at this time and necessarily the preferred over others?
 * Can [|Dialogic Design Science] contribute towards reaching a global consensus?
 * When and how is [|Dialogic Design Science] complementary to other approaches offering other insights?
 * How can we best interrelate complementary approaches, each with a tendency to consider that it is of primary value -- especially in seeking to reinforce that perspective through the gathering

Day 1 Monday May 4
Main Theme: Contemporary Global Challenges 8: 30 - 9:00 Networking over coffee 9:00 - 9:20 Welcoming by [|Yiannis Laouris] and [|Aleco Christakis]

9:20 - 9:44 Five Minutes of Fame

9:40 - 10:10 Keynote [|Norma Romm]: The Epistemological Grounding of Structured Dialogical Design 10:10 - 10:25 [|Marios Michaelides]: Introduction to the Triggering Question. 10:25 - 11:00 Interactive Session over coffee and snacks. Discussions in small groups. Each person submits at least ONE IDEA electronically: StatementClarification as textClarification as video 11:00 - 13.00 Presentations (Conference style) and Panel Discussion[|Marios Michaelides], [|Marios Constantinou], [|Yiannis Panayiotou]: Stakeholders' Engagement[|Roxana Cárdenas]: The Century of the Cities: inequality and urban growth[|Andreas Shoshilos]: Engaging the citizens of a whole village using an adapted version of structured democratic dialogue[|Antigoni Parmaxi]: Technology in Education 13:00 - 14.00 Free Light Lunch at near-by restaurants (not covered by conference) 14:00 - 18.00 Co-Laboratory of Democracy: Stakeholders' Engagement
 * 1) Person 1: [|Marios Michaelides]
 * 2) Person 2: [|Norma Romm]
 * 3) Person 3: [|Antigoni Parmaxi] [|Panayiotis Zaphiris]
 * 4) Person 4: [|Roxana Cárdenas]
 * Introduction to the Theme and the Challenges of the day. Chair of KMT introduces the background of the afternoon's SDDP
 * 11:00 - 13.00 Symposion 1: Contemporary Global Challenges
 * Open to all participants ||

Triggering Question: What are the requirements of an ideal approach that secures authentic and effective engagement of all relevant stakeholders?

__Dialogue Design Team__ 20:00 Dinner at [] CYPRUS Meze - Please let us know if vegetarian
 * [|Marios Michaelides]
 * [|Marios Constantinou]
 * [|Yiannis Panayiotou]
 * CS3 Expert: [|Savia Christou]

Evening Lecture: Memories and Reflections from Co-Labs in Cyprus by [|Marios Michaelides]

Day 2 Tuesday May 5
Main Theme: Next Generation Tools, Approaches and Resources 8: 30 - 9:00 Networking over coffee 9:00 - 9:30 Five Minutes of Fame

9:30 - 10:00 Keynote [|Yiannis Laouris], [|Kevin Dye] and [|Jeff Diedrich]: From face-to-face, small groups, small scale applications to world-wide impacts 10:00 - 10:15 [|Jeff Diedrich]: Introduction to the Triggering Question. Discussions in small groups. Each person submits at least ONE Statements electronically 10:15 - 11:00 Interactive Session over coffee and snacks. Discussions in small groups. Each person submits at least ONE IDEA electronically: StatementClarification as textClarification as video 11:00 - 13.00 Presentations (Conference style) and Panel Discussion[|Savia Christou] and [|Eleni Philippou]: Cogniscope v3 and beyond[|Jeff Diedrich]: Logosofia - Next gen. SDD software[|Katerina Fotiou]: IdeaPrism: A collection of Web- and App technologies to support scaling-up[|Andy Hegedus]: Growing What We Have Today[|Gayle Underwood]: We All Have Special Needs[|Elina Antoniou]: How we can use creative thinking processes taugh by kids, during an SDDP process 13:00 - 14.00 Free Light Lunch at near-by restaurants (not covered by conference) 14:00 - 18.00 Co-Laboratory of Democracy: Defining Features of of SDD-type mass engagements
 * 1) Person 1: [|Jeff Diedrich]
 * 2) Person 2: [|Gayle Underwood]
 * 3) Person 3: [|Andy Hegedus]
 * 4) Person 4: [|Katerina Fotiou]
 * 5) Person 5: [|Savia Christou]
 * Introduction to the Theme and the Challenges of the day. Chair of KMT introduces the background of the afternoon's SDDP
 * 11:00 - 13.00 Symposion 4: Defining Features of SDD-type of engagements of Next Generation Tools, Approaches and Resources
 * Open to all participants ||

Triggering Question: What are requirements for Next Generation Tools, Approaches and Resources to enable SDD-type of engagements of hundreds, thousands, or even millions of people?

__Dialogue Design Team__
 * [|Kevin Dye]
 * [|Gayle Underwood]
 * CS3 Expert: [|Katerina Fotiou]

Free Night

Day 3 Wednesday May 6
Main Theme: The Challenges of Scaling-up to engage millions 8: 30 - 9:00 Networking over coffee 9:00 - 9:30 Five Minutes of Fame

9:30 - 10:00 Keynote: [|Yiannis Laouris]: The Challenges of Scaling up 10:00 - 10:15 [|Kevin Dye]: Introduction to the Triggering Question. Discussions in small groups. Each person submits at least ONE Statements electronically 10:15 - 11:00 Interactive Session over coffee and snacks. Discussions in small groups. Each person submits at least ONE IDEA electronically: StatementClarification as textClarification as video 11:00 - 13.00 Presentations (Conference style) and Panel Discussion[|Paul Hays]: The Economics of Scalability[|Yiannis Laouris]: Local micro SDDs resulting into global consensus[|Kevin Dye]: Actual Variety and Its Discontents: Techniques for Eliciting & Articulating Participant’s "Perfect Dissatisfaction" with Transitory Social Networks of Engagements[|Reynaldo Treviño]: From the Interloquium Experiment to the Millennium Requirements for Global Dialogues[|Constantina Spanoude]: The Wisdom Summator 13:00 - 14.00 Free Light Lunch at near-by restaurants (not covered by conference) 14:00 - 18.00 Co-Laboratory of Democracy: The Challenges of Scaling up
 * 1) Person 1: [|Kevin Dye]
 * 2) Person 2: [|Paul Hays]
 * 3) Person 3: [|Reynaldo Treviño]
 * 4) Person 4: [|Constantina Spanoude]
 * 5) Person 5: [|Maria Kakoulaki]
 * Introduction to the Theme and the Challenges of the day. Chair of KMT introduces the background of the afternoon's SDDP
 * 11:00 - 13.00 Symposion 2: The Challenges of Scaling up
 * Open to all participants ||

Triggering Question: What features are ideally required by a future social networking tool that will enable the authentic participation of millions without violating the principles of SDD?

__Dialogue Design Team__
 * [|Tonia Loizidou]
 * [|Georgia Nathanael]
 * CS3 Expert: [|Constantina Spanoude]

Evening Lecture: Memories and Reflections from the development of 20th Century Cogniscope tools - [|Kevin Dye]

Day 4 Thursday May 7
Main Theme: Navigating Complexity using diverse Systems Methodologies 8: 30 - 9:00 Networking over coffee 9:00 - 9:30 Five Minutes of Fame

9:30 - 10:00 Keynote by [|Gerald Midgley]: Navigating complexity using diverse systems approaches. 10.00 - 10:15 [|Peter Jones]: Introduction to the Triggering Question. Discussions in small groups. Each person submits at least ONE Statements electronically 10:15 - 11:00 Interactive Session over coffee and snacks. Discussions in small groups. Each person submits at least ONE IDEA electronically: StatementClarification as textClarification as video 11:00 - 13.00 Presentations (Conference style) and Panel Discussion[|Ken Bausch]: Third Phase Science[|Peter Jones]: Bringing Design to Dialogic Design. Balancing the science of dialogic design with design thinking and design practices.[|Janet McIntyre]: Ecological footprint and planetary passport: design and prototype for alternative architectures for democracy and governance based on co-creation and co-determination[|Nikitas Assimakopoulos] and [|Demetris Varsos]: Proffesional Systemics and SDD 13:00 - 14.00 Free Light Lunch at near-by restaurants (not covered by conference) 14:00 - 18.00 Co-Laboratory of Democracy: Navigating Complexity using diverse Systems Methodologies.
 * 1) Person 1: [|Nikitas Assimakopoulos]
 * 2) Person 2: [|Ken Bausch]
 * 3) Person 3: [|Janet McIntyre]
 * 4) Person 4: [|Gerald Midgley]
 * 5) Person 5: [|Peter Jones]
 * Introduction to the Theme and the Challenges of the day. Chair of KMT introduces the background of the afternoon's SDDP
 * 11:00 - 13.00 Symposion 5: Navigating Complexity using diverse Systems Methodologies
 * Open to all participants ||

Triggering Question: What would be the requirements for achieving a transformation to more systemic policy-making, decision-making, and acting at all scales, from global to local?

__Dialogue Design Team__ Free Night
 * [|Jeff Diedrich]
 * [|Andreas Andreou]
 * CS3 Expert: [|Eleni Philippou]

Day 5 Friday May 8
Main Theme: 21st Century Problématique and Global Democratic [R]evolution 8: 30 - 9:00 Networking over coffee 9:00 - 9:30 Five Minutes of Fame

9:30 - 10:00 Keynote [|Aleco Christakis]: Why do we need a design culture to reverse the triumph of technocracy over democracy 10.00 - 10:15 [|Peter Jones]: Introduction to the Triggering Question. Discussions in small groups. Each person submits at least ONE Statements electronically 10:15 - 11:00 Interactive Session over coffee and snacks. Discussions in small groups. Each person submits at least ONE IDEA electronically: StatementClarification as textClarification as video 11:00 - 13.00 Presentations (Conference style) and Panel Discussion[|Tom Flanagan]: Deliberation: a path to catalysis, catharsis, or chaos[|Sotos Shiakides]: Epistemological and Methodological Reflections on Structured Democratic Dialogue[|Elena Kalli] & [|Stelios Papapetrou]: Defining the vision of the youth board of Cyprus[|Peter Jones]: Beyond the Predicament. Rethinking Ozbekhan’s normative planning as a core practice of systemic design[|Heiner Benking]: (work-title) GLocal Harvesting and TakingStock. An Outlook towards FutureLab 2.0 - (//Zukunftswerkstatt and New Librarians [as requested and envisioned by Futurist Robert Jungk]//) revisted 13:00 - 14.00 Free Light Lunch at near-by restaurants (not covered by conference) 14:00 - 18.00 Co-Laboratory of Democracy: 21st Century Problématique and Global Democratic [R]evolution.
 * 1) Person 1: [|Heiner Benking]
 * 2) Person 2: [|Tom Flanagan]
 * 3) Person 3: [|Elena Kalli] [|Stelios Papapetrou]
 * 4) Person 4: [|Marios Constantinou]
 * 5) Person 5: [|Andreas Shoshilos]
 * Introduction to the Theme and the Challenges of the day. Chair of KMT introduces the background of the afternoon's SDDP
 * 11:00 - 13.00 Symposion 6: 21st Century Problématique and Global Democratic [R]evolution
 * Open to all participants ||

Triggering Question: What Challenges do we face in addressing the 21st Century Problématique and Global Democratic [R]evolution? __Dialogue Design Team__
 * [|Kevin Dye]
 * [|Gayle Underwood]
 * CS3 Expert: [|Katerina Fotiou]

20:00 Dinner at Karatello Tavern[|[6]]- Please let us know if vegetarian

Evening Lecture: The Club of Rome replayed: The triumph of technocracy over democracy. - [|Aleco Christakis]

Day 6 Saturday May 9
[|SDD Facilitators Training School]: Hands-on Training Opportunities for advanced and beginner SDD Facilitators to advance their skills through practical training. Interested individuals should register well in advance. The organisers will assign to them roles (i.e., Broker, Sponsor, Member of the Design Team, co-Facilitator, Lead Facilitator etc.) and mentor them throughout the process.

Day 7 Sunday May 10
Possible day trips for participants (free time)

A Historical Perspective: From the Club of Rome to the Digital Era
For the last 40 plus years there have been probably more than 1,000 applications of [|SDDP] in [|Co-Laboratories of Democracy] staged in a variety of settings around the world. For example in Cyprus, the location of this Symposion (it is a Greek word meaning drinking together), we have a history of more than 20 years of applications and more than 70 [|Co-Laboratories][|[7]] with government agencies, such as the Ministries of Finance, Transportation, Interior, and many others, as well as bi-communal colabs involving Greek and Turkish Cypriots addressing issues of conflict resolution and peace building on the island of Aphrodite. The first test of the [|Interpretive Structural Modeling] (ISM) algorithm, developed by [|John Warfield][|[8]] in 1971, was conducted by [|Dave Malone] and [|Aleco Christakis] on the table top of Warfield’s office at the Battelle Columbus Laboratories in Ohio, USA. The first application of [|ISM] with real people was conducted by Brother Raymond Fitz, who later on became the President of the University of Dayton, with the City Council of Dayton in 1973. There is a video of this ISM session with the members of the city council deliberating on setting budget priorities for allocating the city revenue. The first Center for Interactive Management was established by Warfield and Christakis at the University of Virginia in 1982, and was moved to George Mason University in 1984. The first consultancy employing the Interactive Management methodology, a predecessor of SDD, was established by Christakis in Philadelphia in 1989, and it worked for 25 years with more than 50 clients in government agencies, corporations, foundations, and NGOs. The Institute for 21st Century Agoras was founded by Dr. [|Ken Bausch] and [|Aleco Christakis] in 2002, in preparation for the 2003 International conference of ISSS (www.ISSS.org) in Crete, when Christakis was serving as President of the systems society met Yiannis Laouris for the first time. Soon there after Laouris established the Future Worlds Center, which emerged as a leader in the evolution of SDD. The purpose of this timely symposion in Cyprus is not to revisit the history of the past 40 plus years, but to create the history of the future on the foundation of past history. The community of scientists and practitioners of the [|Dialogic Design Science] has now expanded to include people from all parts of the world and a variety of languages and cultures. This dedicated community of scientists will gather for the first time in this symposion for a whole week, and will deliberate formally and informally on how to evolve the process and retain its scientific credibility together with its cultural sensitivity. The Framework of their deliberations will be the [|Domain of Science Model] (DOSM) developed by Warfield and shown graphically [|here].

Examples of analogous efforts
Currently consideration is being given to the process of argumentation on the web and the only too evident weaknesses of current methodologies. Examples are documented below.
 * Implementing the Argument Web
 * []
 * Arguing on the web 2.0: (Amsterdam, June 30 - July 1, 2014)
 * []
 * Arguing on the Web 2.0
 * []
 * 8th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation
 * []

Confirmed International Pioneers (alphabetically)

 * 1) [|Aleco Christakis]
 * 2) [|Andy Hegedus]
 * 3) [|Gayle Underwood]
 * 4) [|Gerald Midgley]
 * 5) [|Heiner Benking]
 * 6) [|Janet McIntyre]
 * 7) [|Jeff Diedrich]
 * 8) [|Ken Bausch]
 * 9) [|Kevin Dye]
 * 10) [|Laura Harris]
 * 11) [|Maria Kakoulaki]
 * 12) [|Nikitas Assimakopoulos]
 * 13) [|Norma Romm]
 * 14) [|Paul Hays]
 * 15) [|Peter Jones]
 * 16) [|Reynaldo Treviño]
 * 17) [|Roxana Cárdenas]
 * 18) [|Tom Flanagan]

Confirmed Local Pioneers (alphabetically)

 * 1) [|Andreas Shoshilos]
 * 2) [|Anna Pavlina Charalambous]
 * 3) [|Antigoni Parmaxi]
 * 4) [|Charalambos Solonos]
 * 5) [|Constantina Spanoude]
 * 6) [|Constantinos Tsiourtos]
 * 7) [|Elena Kalli]
 * 8) [|Elia Petridou]
 * 9) [|Eleni Philippou]
 * 10) [|Georgia Nathanael]
 * 11) [|Katerina Fotiou]
 * 12) [|Maria Georgiou]
 * 13) [|Maria Loizou]
 * 14) [|Mary Ioannou]
 * 15) [|Marios Constantinou]
 * 16) [|Marios Michaelides]
 * 17) [|Savia Christou]
 * 18) [|Sotos Shiakides]
 * 19) [|Stelios Papapetrou]
 * 20) [|Tonia Loizidou]
 * 21) [|Yiannis Laouris]
 * 22) [|Yiannis Panayiotou]

Useful Links
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 * http://www.dialogicdesignscience.wikispaces.com
 * Dialogue Beyond Borders @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoATEmPVRoc&feature=youtu.be